Earlier today I posted a fairly cryptic facebook message. I said, in sum, that I finally understand the difference between religion and science. It goes like this: Science is about the How. Religion is about the Why. Science tells us to ask the difficult questions about how a thing works, how the universe started and how many times reality has been formed (probably 8) and how it all works. Religion is primarily concerned with why we are here, what our purpose is, and why we are meant to behave in a certain fashion. Religion largely leaves the question of how up to God and Faith.
God made the world. How? Seven days of complex hand movements I suppose. But none of that matters. He did it, we know it, and you ought to move right along. Science responds, ‘Not so fast, my friend. Even if God made the world, it used the complex physics of space time in order to do so, therefore we ought to try and understand how those work in order to gain a better understanding of our reality.’
So there you have the insane collaboration of how and why, which truly ought to be a collaboration and really was at some points in our history. Nowadays we are largely reduced to caricatures and stereotypes to group together large swaths of understanding and separate them from each other in a binary fashion. You are 0 or 1, but never both it seems and if both you are outcast.
Wait, my saddle is making me itch. Let me climb down off this high horse…
Some Thoughts:
- Forza 6 is visually stunning and I am hooked. Race Night 2 coming this Saturday.
- I remain thoroughly and utterly in love.
- No, it isn’t a blonde. That was a typo.